JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"Kurt Ullman" wrote in message
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"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote:


Hardly a reason to let them come in. If they were tossed out for
being illegal, then three things would happen. Some things wouldn't get
done because at "real" wages (w/o the extra illegals) they just aren't
profitable.
Conscripted people will work for minimum wage. No need to see jobs vanish
and things not get done.

Can we at least pretend to stay within the confines of reality?

Which part of the ABOVE do you consider to be a departure from reality? 18
year olds already work **** jobs and they're happy to get them. They rarely
stick around for more than a year anyway.

They don't do it at the point of a gun.


In other instances, the wages and to a greater or larger
extent prices would go up.
Not if legal replacement workers receive the same wages as illegals.
But that is assuming a repeal of the laws of supply and demand.
Again try to keep it kinda sorta real.

We're discussing a hypothetical situation he All the meat heads who want
the illegals out - they get their wish and they're gone tomorrow, just in
time for planting season across much of America. How do you replace them,
and what do you pay them?

Farmers just have to pay higher wages, that's all.



You said "Automation was but one of the possibilities." What others do you
suggest?